[C38] Traveler Location?

[david at dlrfilms.com]

The number 1 problem I'm trying to solve is to be able to make a positive
seal between the dodger and the coach roof so as to give the companionway
some protection from rain, spray and worse.

The next is that with the big wood feet where they are there's barely
enough room to run two lines back from the mast and the winch has to be
mounted so far outboard there's no clearance for a winch handle to make a
full revolution, either outboard, or forward. I haven't settled on reefing
at the mast (which I have and has served us well) or leading back to the
cockpit. But I'd like to have the option.

The mainsheet option I'm looking at is a fiddleblock & becket w/snap
shackle to the toerail on each side, with a pair of fiddleblocks hung off
the end of the boom, hopefully giving a good sheeting angle and even a
little vanging action from the offside sheet. Untidy, by easily
demountable when the boat's at rest. Or at least that's the theory.

Of course by the time all those blocks and line are bought, I could just
about get a Gauhauer traveler with feet that would let lines pass under 
and mount that just forward of the hatch. My hesitation is that it looks
awfully far forward on the boom.

Some good news. Your tiller is in and looks great! And I've got my Aries
back on the boat and tuned to where it responds to the slightest puff. I
also found a cunning way to take up the last bit of slack in the lines 
(run each of  the control lines through a block and then use a second line
to lift it to pull the control line tight.) I can't wait to get it hooked
up with the tiller and see how it works.


> David, My traveler (1980 hull) is locagted where yours is/was, a foot or
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> aft of the leading edge of the companionway opening.
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> For what its worth, I've had another boat with the traveler mounted
> mid-cockpit and I wouldn'ty go back to that confoguration...it's always in
> the way.
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> Steve Ribble
> Tittravate #64
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> On Sep 13, 2009 7:37pm, david at dlrfilms.com wrote:
>> So I just got my new to me North Sails made for a Catalina38 complete
>> with
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>> the insignia mainsail and low and behold, my boom is about 2 feet longer
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>> than the Catalina spec and so was the sail I had on it (a Hinkley 42
>> main,
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>> I think.)
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>> My traveler was mounted about a foot aft of the forward edge of the
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>> companionway hatch, cutting across it in an untidy way. I just took it
>> out
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>> to make way for a hard dodger, and was going to move the main to the end
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>> of the boom and into the cockpit, but now I'm wondering if it's odd,
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>> slightly in the way location was done to accommodate the longer
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>> boom/bigger mainsail.
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>> Those of you who have travelers on your coachroofs, do they cut across
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>> hatch, or are they further forward?
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>> Are any of you running your mainsheets in other locations? Like it? Hate
>> it?
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>> Thanks!
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